Frank’s death was reported in the Macclesfield Times on 26 October 1917:

DIED AT HIS GUN – A MACCLESFIELD ARTILLERYMAN

Gunner Frank Oldfield, Royal Garrison Artillery, son of Mr and Mrs Oldfield, of Wyke, near Bradford, and formerly of Newtown, Macclesfield, fell in action… on September 26th. The news was contained in… [a] letter from the Major: “… We have had a very heavy time just lately, and your son was killed instantaneously by a shell which fell in the position that he could have suffered no pain. He died at his gun…”

Gunner Oldfield claimed Macclesfield as his birthplace and was educated at Newtown day school. He was twenty-two years of age and left the town with his parents over ten years ago. Mr Oldfield, his father, was at one time engaged as a dresser at Messrs Thomas Crew and Sons, Vincent Street, Macclesfield.